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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 23, 1952
Page
2
A 1952 Labour Ministry forecast by Hon. M F Gregg VC predicts similar conditions to prior years with heavy demand for construction workers and ongoing factory and defense industry employment. Seasonal unemployment may occur in some fields, but overall employment shows no drop expected and no acute shortages anticipated.
The Alberta Farmer's Union delegates note the labour squeeze as industrial jobs attract farm workers with shorter hours and benefits. Minister David Ure urges diversification to reduce seasonal unemployment, citing Canada imports including butter from New Zealand to meet demand.
Premier E. C. Manning will present a record 100000000 budget during Alberta's 1942 legislative session opening February 21. It will be the fifth session of the 11th legislature. Reported by informed sources. Mosquitoes are abundant in some Arctic regions.
A string of brief comic vignettes unfolds in a city setting with a new vicar teased about feeding the sheep, a department store floorwalker giving marriage advice, a joke about bait and broken judgment, a man with his wife’s shoes in a bus, a witty magistrate repartee, a bee sting metaphor, and a London sightseer's gaffe with city women.
A major natural gas find near Elrose Saskatchewan was announced by Resources Minister J H Brockelbank. The Sohio Standard Elrose No 1 wildcat well spudded December 16 showed seven million cubic feet per day and substantial oil staining. The find extends a gas field trend into southern Saskatchewan.
Antelope Saskatchewan elevator agent Jim Spence faces persistent rat problems. Rats gnaw belt lacing in the elevator system despite tar coatings, destroying new lacings as fast as replacements are installed.
Dr. Norman Easter provincial director of communicable diseases reports a measles epidemic in Magrath with about 100 unofficial cases in a town of roughly 1300 residents. The advisory highlights a rapid spread and calls for vigilance.
Alberta plans nearly 900 million dollars in new projects over the next years to develop oil natural gas forests and mines and to process farm products. Major plants and pipelines will expand Edmonton Calgary and other sites including Celanese tied projects and a large pulp and chemical industry.
In Saskatoon pranksters stole a trolley coach while the driver was away at the bus terminal. The large vehicle was later found abandoned and undamaged.
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